Mono Meals Update

My nine days of mono meal eating are over! I'll write about the final day tomorrow.

April 14, 2008

Today I have even more energy. My tongue is coated more, however. It s not horrible, but it s definitely less red and more of a light pink. My eyes have continued to feel dry and my eyelids are heavy. What causes that, I wonder? My nails are whiter and harder, but they still break and rip when I m working around the house.

11:35am

I ate the two remaining navel oranges this morning and they were very good sweet and juicy. Now I m starting to feel a bit hungry. I keep looking at the tomatoes, thinking I might want to do a mono meal with tomatoes, but when if I start them and then I don t want any more? I m so used to eating tomatoes with salt and oil, the thought of consuming them without either makes me wonder if I d really like them as much. The other option will be apples. I guess I ll see what I decide once I m in the kitchen. ;-)

12:58pm

Okay, I looked at the tomatoes, then at the large bowl of apples, then at the tomatoes. I definitely felt more drawn to the tomatoes, so that s what I chose. I ate one pint of grape tomatoes and they were great! I have another pint for later. I don t know if I d enjoy the larger, slicing tomatoes as much as the grape tomatoes, though. I think I wanted the tomatoes because I m really kind of sick of the sweet fruits. What I want is a lot of green stuff, oil, salt, and herbs/spices!!

2:00pm

I finished the second pint of tomatoes. They were really good and I probably would have eaten more of them if I had some. The slicing tomatoes just don t look like something I want to eat right now. So, when I m hungry later, I think I m switching to the apples. They should be able to carry me through until tomorrow evening when I make a meal of a lot more than one item to consume! I ve decided I want a salad, followed by beet pasta with alfredo sauce, sprinkled with finely chopped parsley.

5:30pm

On the way to drop KDcat off at her rehearsal, I ate an apple. Now I m sitting here with a bowl of three other apples cut up into slices. They don t taste awesome to me. I think my mind is concentrating too much on my meal tomorrow evening (haha). Apples are so much better in the Autumn. Anyway, that s what I have for dinner this evening, and breakfast and lunch tomorrow. Then I m done with the nine days!!

6:11pm

I ve eaten about one third of the apples and I just don t want the rest of them. I ll eat them, though, so that I am not going to sleep hungry this evening. I wonder what it means that I am having a difficult time during this last 24 hours? UGH! I just want it to be over with. I think if I had bananas it would be easy. Maybe the apples are too light, or something, in my stomach.

7:30pm

You won t believe this!! I m going to have a major blog entry tomorrow about this. It s complicated to write briefly, but the fast was supposed to end TODAY! My agony on this final day never needed to exist! So, here it is almost 7:30pm and I am eating a salad. It s too late to make the pasta dish I was wanting that will happen tomorrow!

10:29pm

I m headed to bed, but I wanted to write that my salad was awesome. However, now I have a bit of a sore throat. I also forgot to write that earlier today, before I ate the salad, my ears felt more congested than usual and I was getting a weird popping kind of sinus sound when I d talk (which happened in the past). I think it was from the tomatoes (which I ve had sensitivities to in the past). I ll write more about the end of my nine days tomorrow.

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